2 NCAA Regional – Final Four (1992, 2010) OVC regular season (1986) OVC tournament (1986) 2 Great Midwest regular season (1992, 1993) 4 Great Midwest tournament (1992–1995) 8 C-USA regular season (1996–2002, 2004) 4 C-USA Tournament (1996, 1998, 2002, 2004) Big East tournament (2010)
Awards
C-USA Coach of the Decade (2005) 3× C-USA Coach of the Year (1998–2000) 2× Great Midwest Coach of the Year (1992, 1993) OVC Coach of the Year (1986) Big 12 Coach of the Year (2015) Jim Phelan Award (2015)
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2022
Robert Edward Huggins (born September 21, 1953),[1][2] nicknamed "Huggy Bear", is an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach at Walsh, Akron, Cincinnati, Kansas State, and West Virginia. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022.
Huggins is the sixth men's college basketball coach with 900 or more career victories.[3] He has been to 24 total NCAA tournaments, including 23 in the last 26 seasons. He has led his teams to nine Sweet Sixteen appearances, four Elite Eight appearances (3 at Cincinnati and 1 at West Virginia University), and two Final Four appearances (1992 with Cincinnati and 2010 with West Virginia). Huggins has also lost in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament a total of 16 times. As of March 2021, Huggins has averaged 23 wins per season over the course of his career. He is also the second coach to win 300 games at two schools.[4]
Huggins released a statement announcing his resignation and retirement from West Virginia in 2023, following his drunk driving arrest.[5] He later denied having officially resigned in a letter his lawyer sent to the university demanding his reinstatement.
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^"Huggins timeline". Cincinnati Enquirer. November 14, 1999. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
^Rittenberg, Adam (March 20, 2021). "Huggins 6th D-I coach to 900 wins as WVU rolls". ESPN. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
^Clark, Dave (January 5, 2021). "Bob Huggins earns his 300th win as West Virginia Mountaineers' head coach". The Cincinnati Enquirer.
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